Comments on: Top 10 Clever Fixes For Your Broken Stuff

By: KC

KC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:48:43 +0000

Ants communicate by using 8 or 9 different chemicals. So when you see an ant in your house, don’t just remove the one ant, clean the entire area with a strong cleaner or disinfectant to dilute/remove the ant’s chemical communicators.

If you know where it got into the house, clean all the way back to the opening. Obviously, plug the opening if possible.

If not possible and if there are lots of ants, remove them all and keep cleaning the area regularly until they are gone. I’ll use glass cleaner with ammonia and disinfectant wipies to clean. I’ll also vacuum the area to clear all the visitors.

It takes awhile but eventually the message that no food/water is available gets back to there nest and they won’t come back. I’ll also use the disinfectant wipies to fill the opening where the ants are coming in.

By: KC

KC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:41:23 +0000

Stuff that’s in my tool box:
Super Glue, Rubber Glue, Duck Tape, Jeweler’s Screw Drivers, Blue LocTite(for when you don’t want screws to come loose but need to undue them sometimes),

Other good stuff used regularly: Wet/Dry Sanding Sponge (smoothing callouses/rough skin), PedEgg, GelGloss(removes scratches/polishes -great for light auto paint scratches), Folex enzyme spot remover(leaves no residue-great for cleaning food staines in clothes/carpet etc.),Greased Lightning(great for removing grease stains from clothes/carpet), Fabuloso concentrated household cleaner(smells good, leaves no residue)

By: Travis Young

Travis Young — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:07:08 +0000

Rediscovered an old trick the other day. Repaired damaged contacts on a circuit board with a pencil. The graphite is conductive enough to repair a broken trace.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:20:50 +0000

You can also get more life out of a Harddrive by turning it upside down. My laptop died and I just turned it upside down so i could shadow protect the drive before replacing with a new one. Worked a treat